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Discipleship Focus: Identity, Authority
- Identity: Our true identity comes from God. Only when our identity comes from God can we be obedient in ways that satisfy our person to our core.
- Authority: Our calling. This comes from God as king. Because He calls us as His representatives, He gives us authority to go and do His will.
When I look at Lot in Genesis 19 I see a crisis of identity. Whatever is at the top of Lot’s Covenant
Triangle, it doesn’t seem like it is God.
God tells Lot to run away, but Lot can’t bring himself to leave without
being dragged away. God tells Lot to
flee to the hills, but Lot can’t bear to think about not being a part of
civilization. Lot ends up in the hills,
and he chooses drunkenness and infidelity with his own daughters rather than
being a responsible man. Here is a man
whose identity is rooted in the world rather than being rooted in the Father.
However, when we look at Abraham we see a man whose identity is
from the Father and whose authority comes from the King. Whereas Lot is always on the brink of
corruption and has to flee without looking back, God permits Abraham to look upon
the valley of Sodom and live. Abraham
has authority in his life to not be corrupted by the sinfulness of Sodom. That kind of authority over human sinfulness
can only come from the Father.
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